NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 1 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points

591% significantly better overall score

528 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

82 FPS

69 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS

52 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

8 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points

1025% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points

1109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4950 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz

98% significantly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

6 GiB

499% significantly more memory

1 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586

321st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon HD 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1660 vs Radeon HD 6870 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the Radeon HD 6870 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 1660 has significantly more memory with 6 GiB of memory compared to 1 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1660 over the Radeon HD 6870.